After Julius
Disclaimer I don't own any of the people mentioned in this story.
Extra Disclaimer The second line of this story is modeled after the last line of a book titled After Julius
I'm standing in the shower, combing my fingers through my hair to get most of the knots out, and thinking about Julius. It is not the first time I have wished that Julius had not tried to save people he had never met, and then he might not be lying, incommunicado, in his grave. I wish he had cared about me, really cared about me, the way I cared about him, as more than just a colleague, more than a friend. Then I realize that maybe he did. He never said anything, but neither did I. And now I'll never know, because he's dead.
I knew Holly did the right thing when she quit, but it stung to see her go. She was one of the best marksfairies in the LEP, second only to me. And she could fly a shuttle through the gap in your teeth.